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We recommend familiarising yourself with how the Forms CLI works before writing your own plugin. |
What is a Forms CLI Plug-in?
The Forms CLI uses a plug-in to turn a JSON definition of a Blink form into source code for a specific framework. It deals only with forms and their functionality, however you could write a plug-in pack that could build an entire project.
Plugin API
A plug-in consists of an entry point that exposes four functions that are called at various points by the Forms CLI. The Forms CLI must expose an object of the following structure:
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It is recommended to use the template-helper module, which provides functions to load templates from a folder, create "primed" mustache templates and a lazyWriter function that is used by the AngularJS plug-in as the return value of processForm.
For a full implementation example, see the AngularJS or JSON plug-ins.
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